Clarkson University Top Questions

Generally speaking, there are few commonly held stereotypes in the Clarkson community. One that does come to mind, and is vaguely discussed as a joke, is the stereotype that engineering students do not have any free time. The curriculum is challenging; nevertheless, I know numerous engineering students, including one of my suite mates, who have plenty of free time and participate in numerous extracurricular activities and Greek organizations.

I'd say the most common stereotype of students here at Clarkson is a geek. It's not a negative stereotype though! Every student here at Clarkson studies really hard to get excellent GPAs, which gives us the geek stereotype.

Clarkson university, mainly being an engineering college, is made up of the geek agenda. However, with a large business school, Digital arts and Sciences classes, and a prestigious hockey team, Clarkson is home to a variety of stereotypes. From groups of jocks, artists, and those who love to party, the Clarkson family is home to a little bit of everything

Clarkson university has a group for everyone! If you like sports there is lots of sports including hockey which is division 1. The greek life at Clarkson is small but if you want to be part of the social life often times people will join Frats or sororities. But the biggest stereotype at clarkson is geeks. It is primarily an engineering school and the ratio of males to females is about 70 to 30!

Clarkson University students are stereotypically thought of as nerds or as really really smart kids. This stereotype is definitely accurate, only at this school 'nerd' is never a bad word. Students here are proud to be nerds or geeks because it means they have a passion for and are good at what they're studying. When I'm walking around campus I most commonly overhear people talking about math or science, and many times you can tell it has nothing to do with an assignment.

Clarkson's common stereotypes are rich, nerdy engineering students that go to a school with no hot girls. These stereotypes are not necessarily true; while Clarkson may be a private institution and so has a larger tuition expense than State schools, many or all students get some form of compensation back from the university, whether it may be an academic scholarship or financial package. The snob attitude that can usually be attributed to a person with a good financial upbringing is not found in most of the students here. Clarkson certainly has a male dominant student body, yet in recent years the enrollment of females has increased. Clarkson is a technological school that has a huge engineering department; however, they hold an equally if not stronger academic department on the Business side, and their science programs are significantly large as well.

The most common stereotype of the Clarkson student is "nerd". We are known for our engineering programs and that tends to stick with students in the community. For the most part students embrace it as here it is a good thing to be smart. I think this stereotype is fairly accurate as everyone here does work fairly hard and tries to maintain a high GPA. However, we do know how to have fun and I think that this is known in the town and at the surrounding universities. The second thing most people believe about Clarkson is that there are "no girls". While in some specific classes this may be true, there are many girls at Clarkson.

A lot of kids here aren't necessarily geeks, but more or less nerds. A lot of people here know a lot of information, and a lot of kids play a lot of video games

At Clarkson, the stereotype is that there's an impressively nerdy, male-dominated campus. This is mostly due to the fact that a great deal of Clarkson is Enginering majors. As a girl on campus, who involves herself with several campus activities, I can safely say that while Engineering students tend to fall in that category, there is a much wider diversity of students than the stereotype would define. If you involve yourself in something that you are passionate about, you'll find people that you have a lot in common with, nerdy or not!